Amanda Bynes was born
on April 3, 1986, in Thousand Oaks, California. You may attribute her
love for comedy to her father, Rick, a television and comedy fan who
encouraged the family to act, joke, sing and dance.

As a young, Amanda starred in community theater and various plays like
"To Kill a Mockingbird", "The Music Man" and "The Secret Garden", and
took classes at comedy school type programs sponsored by famous groups
like The Comedy Store and the Laugh Factory in Los Angeles. At the age
of ten, she performed at the Laugh Factory children's comedy showcase
and was soon approached by an executive from the Nickelodeon television
network and asked to join the network.

Nickelodeon hired Bynes for the sketch
television variety and comedy series called "All That" alongside
Jamie Lynn Spears and Drake Bell, where she regularly stole the show
from her fellow cast members. Amanda became famous for her feisty role
in "Ask Ashley," a comedy skit about an advice columnist. Viewers
started to take notice, and still do, that she has a talent for comic
timing and funny adlibbing, in the same style as sexy female comedians
like Meg Ryan and Jamie Lee Curtis.

After five seasons on the comedy series, during
which time she won five Kids' Choice awards, Bynes was given her own television show, fittingly titled "The Amanda
Show" with Drake Bell, Ashley Tisdale and Nancy Sullivan. For
four seasons it was the highest rated comedy show on the Nickelodeon
network.

As with most young celebrities, Bynes career has benefited from the
inspiration of a guru. Dan Schneider was the originator of both of her
smash hit Nickelodeon shows, so it makes sense that he was the driving
force and producer behind "Big Fat Liar", her 2002 film
introduction. Although Frankie Muniz, from the television cult classic
"Malcolm in the Middle" was the movie's sexy male celebrity star draw,
viewers believed that her character was the funny one, in part to her
physical comedy and hilarious impersonations.

In 2002, the WB network started airing the sitcom
"What I Like About You", which had been in production for some time as
a comedy project developed for the young actress. Bynes stars as a teenage girl who moves in with her oldest sister in
New York City and of course, turns her sister's world into a complete
mess.

In 2003, Amanda Bynes could be
seen in her first leading role, in "What a Girl Wants" about an
American teenage girl in search of her Dad in London. Two years later
she appeared in the films "Robots" with Halle
Berry, Robin Williams and Paula Abdul, and "Lovewrecked", where on
a Caribbean cruise, her character is marooned on a beach with her rock
and roll idol. Head-over-heels in love with the idea of time alone with
him, she manages to hide the fact that they're a short distance from
their resort.

In 2006 Bynes was hired and cast in a small part
in "She's The Man", where her brother decides to skip school for a
couple weeks in London, and she heads over to his privileged boarding
school, disguises herself as him, and proceeds to fall in love with one
of her soccer teammates. Little does she realize she's not the only one
with romantic troubles, as she, as he, gets in the middle of a series
of confusing love affairs.

In 2007 Amanda appeared in "Sydney White", a
modern retelling of Snow White set against students in their freshman
year of college in the sorority system, and the hit movie musical
"Hairspray" starring next to mega sexy celebrities John
Travolta, Michelle Pfieffer and High School Musical friend and
co-star Zac Efron, where a pleasantly plump teenager, Tracy Turnblad,
teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a
spot on a local TV dance show.

Also in 2007, she signed a three year contract with Steve & Barry's
to create and promote her own stylish, teen clothing line called "Dear".

In 2012 Bynes was arrested in West Hollywood for
(DUI) dunk driving after the actress hit a police car while attempting
to pass another vehicle. This was not the first run in with the law
either. Amanda was also pulled over a few months earlier for driving
while using a cellphone but then left the scene before police could
finish writing her ticket. SHe later returned to the police station to
sign the ticket. Other paparazzi say they had seen Bynes drunk at clubs
and later got into a car and drove herself away.